Abortion Rights
Different religions have different beliefs on when life starts.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
In 2018, Mississippi passed a law called the “Gestational Age Act,” which prohibits all abortions, with few exceptions, after 15 weeks’ gestational age. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only licensed abortion facility in Mississippi, and one of its doctors filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging the law and requesting an emergency temporary restraining order.
Justice Samuel Alito authored the majority opinion of the Court as follows; “The Constitution does not mention abortion. The right is neither deeply rooted in the nation’s history nor an essential component of ‘ordered liberty.’ The five factors that should be considered in deciding whether a precedent should be overruled support overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.”
The five factors: “(1) they ‘short-circuited the democratic process,’ (2) both lacked grounding in constitutional text, history, or precedent, (3) the tests they established were not ‘workable,’ (4) they caused distortion of law in other areas, and (5) overruling them would not upend concrete reliance interests.”
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In 2018, Mississippi passed a law called the “Gestational Age Act,” which prohibits all abortions, with few exceptions, after 15 weeks’ gestational age. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only licensed abortion facility in Mississippi, and one of its doctors filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging the law and requesting an emergency temporary restraining order
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The Constitution does not mention abortion. The right is neither deeply rooted in the nation’s history nor an essential component of “ordered liberty.” The five factors that should be considered in deciding whether a precedent should be overruled support overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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Three Louisville residents have filed a lawsuit in state court arguing Kentucky’s abortion restrictions violate their reproductive and religious freedom rights. Plaintiffs Lisa Sobel, Jessica Kalb and Sarah Baron practice Judaism and do not believe life begins at conception. Two of them have also used in vitro fertilization to become pregnant. They worry the laws could impact their future reproductive decisions.
“The fetus has an interest in having a life and that doesn’t change.” -Justice Samuel Alito
Dissenting
Breyer (Jewish)
Sotomayor (Catholic)
Kagan (Jewish)
Affirming
Roberts (Catholic)
Thomas (Catholic)
Kavanaugh (Catholic)
Alito (Catholic)
Gorsuch (Catholic)
Barrett (Catholic)
Of the 9 Supreme Court Justices involved in the deciding of Dobbs V. Jackson, 7 practice Catholicism and 2 are practice Judaism. The decisions are as follows:
Different religions have different beliefs on when life starts.
Three Louisville residents have filed a lawsuit in state court arguing Kentucky’s abortion restrictions violate their reproductive and religious freedom rights. Plaintiffs Lisa Sobel, Jessica Kalb and Sarah Baron practice Judaism and do not believe life begins at conception. Two of them have also used in vitro fertilization to become pregnant. They worry the laws could impact their future reproductive decisions.